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author = "Waldon, Brandon and
Schneider, Nathan",
editor = "Peng, Siyao and
Rehbein, Ines",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 19th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XIX-2025)",
month = jul,
year = "2025",
address = "Vienna, Austria",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.law-1.27/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.law-1.27",
pages = "326--331",
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%T A GitHub-based Workflow for Annotated Resource Development
%A Waldon, Brandon
%A Schneider, Nathan
%Y Peng, Siyao
%Y Rehbein, Ines
%S Proceedings of the 19th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XIX-2025)
%D 2025
%8 July
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Markdown (Informal)
[A GitHub-based Workflow for Annotated Resource Development](https://aclanthology.org/2025.law-1.27/) (Waldon & Schneider, LAW 2025)
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